Back from a fabulous holiday in Australia, with profuse apologies for my lack of commenting over the last few weeks, but accessing WiFi wasn't always easy!
At this point I would like to acknowledge the wonderful contribution given by Anne whilst I was away. She made sample cards for each challenge and was tireless in her commenting on submissions!THANK YOU ANNE!
It is greatly appreciated by me and also I'm sure by all the people whose blogs she visited!

A simple card from a couple of dies purchased from Simon Says Stamp!

With intricate dies like these, I add some double sided tape to the back of the card before running it through my Cuttlebug. Then all I have to do once the card is die-cut, is to peel and press!

I love to add frames to highlight images. Here I used a circular Nestie to cut this frame for an emboss resist Stampin' Up image. The sentiment is also from SU!

firstly, I'm sorry I never managed a card last week due to one thing or another. hope this week goes to plan.
This weeks card uses fabulous stamps from Clearly Besotted as well as one of the new word dies. I have used shadow inks for the circles and they give a lovely finish.

Thank you so much all those people who left comments for fellow participants last week, it would be great if you could do it again this time, even though it's not part of the challenge... it's just a lovely thing to do for others!

This is a technique which I love to do. Emboss resist leaves stamped with Distress ink and clear embossed, with the rest of the card inked and splatter stamped, then cut with Nesties and triple clear embossed. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up. Three leaves, three panels!

Saturday, 15 March 2014

It seems that stencilling is de rigeur at the moment, so let's see what you can do.

If you don't have any stencils you could use your dies or punches to make a stencil from card or acetate.... or you could simply choose to included some masking of some description in your work.

Chrissie

Here is a little card using a stencil I made from a font called Peoni Patterns. which is free from Dafont.

I used the flower which is in fact the letter 'A'.

I cut the stencil from acetate using my Silhouette. I inked through it using two shades of green Distress Ink using sponge daubers and then rotated the stencil through 90 degrees and inked again using the orange colours.

The little gecko was a download from here. All trails I followed left by our fabulous LIMette Hannelie!

The sentiment is from Tattered Lace.

Here's another simple stencil, again cut from acetate by my Silhouette. I inked in two shades of purple and then overstamped with a manuscript stamp.

Just one card from me this week as work has been a bit manic and the second card went disastrously wrong ... beyond salvage :-) I chose to use masks and embossing paste for this weeks challenge...

I used the same technique to colour the embossing paste that you can see here on this card and used the same colour as the card stock .. Stampin Up Strawberry Slush. The happy birthday die is from simon says stamp and the mask from calico studio. I love the tone on tone of the paste on the card stock!

Just one card from me this week... although i had made two one went a little wrong and I didn't have the time to re-make. For this card I used a stamp with a favourite spring flower.. the Iris. I simply coloured the stamp with markers then stamped it onto pale grey card. The sentiment is from the same Stampin Up Set.ChrissieA quick word from AustraliaWe are having an amazing time and although I may not have chance to comment in all your fabulous cards, I'm peeking whenever I can. This week's submissions so far are AMAZING, I am SO impressed !

This is a digi image from Fred She Said, coloured with Distress Inks and watercolours using a water brush, with a computer generated sentiment in Andalus and Passions Conflict fonts.
I'm sorry the picture is so dreadful, it's very hit and miss with me as to whether I get a decent picture... despite Picasa editing!

My second card has an embossed tulip border which I coloured lightly with Promarkers and gently twinkled with Glamour Dust. I think it's a Craft Too die bought at Ally Pally some time ago!

The sentiment says Debbie Moore on the side of the stamp. I positioned it using a rectangular piece of acetate from some packaging and a right angle corner made from some Duplo! A do-it-yourself Stampamajig!

I have a couple of cards for you today using the same ingredients, this is a fabulous stamp from Stampin Up called Blessed Easter and I have simply stamped it onto watercolour card and then coloured them in using Stampin Up Re-Inkers. I've stitched them using my trusty sewing machine. I also made them in a couple of other colour ways and you can see these later in the week on my blog.

The use of this week's colours in this card is subtle to saythe least! The delicate daisies were stamped and masked and a second stamping applied.

The colouring was done using Iced Spruce Distress Ink and a water brush with a couple of Copics used for additional shading. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. There is a little yellow in the centre of the daisies ... honest!

This one is a digi image from Fred She Said. It's coloured with Copics and the sentiment was computer generated using Pea Roxygirl font. The border was cut with a Fiskars border punch.